Services
Dynatrace monitors all of your application's services, processes, and infrastructure. By evaluating all such components collectively, Dynatrace is able to pinpoint exactly how each service contributes to the performance of your application. For example, in Java monitoring, Dynatrace sees your host, JVM, and processes as a whole. That's how we can easily discover garbage collection issues that affect the services running in a JVM. Also, Dynatrace can show you which of your web services is running on your Tomcat application server, for example, and how your Tomcat server's performance is affected by its host, or even your VMware vCenter server.
Dynatrace automatically detects and names server-side services of your applications based on basic properties of your application deployment and configuration.
Dynatrace visualizes the complexities of your application stack and delivery chain with Smartscape technology. In a Smartscape visualization, you can see which individual web page calls which specific web server, the application server that receives the resulting web requests, and where the resulting web request service calls are sent.
To provide you with a continuous view of service flows, Dynatrace uses the following means to track transactions across tiers:
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header for HTTP requeststraceparent
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headers for HTTP and gRPC requests1dtdTraceTagInfo
custom property for the Java message service (JMS)- A unique key for message queues (based on message properties)
To enable or disable the use of these headers, go to Settings > Preferences > OneAgent features and turn on/off Send W3C Trace Context HTTP headers and Send W3C Trace Context gRPC headers.
Service detection and naming
Learn how services are detected and named in Dynatrace and how you can customize your monitoring via service detection and naming rules.
Analysis
Find out the service monitoring details that Dynatrace can provide.
Request attributes
Learn what request attributes are and how you can use them across all levels of service analysis.
Settings
Find out monitoring tuning options for services.